One of the most convenient features Pixel 2 and Pixel 3 owners enjoy, call screening, is getting an important upgrade. By the end of the year, your device will be able to save the call transcriptions it creates when dealing with suspected spam calls (or calls you choose to screen manually). And if you don’t want to wait, you can beta test the feature right now.
In automatic call screening’s current incarnation, Google Assistant can recognize when a call may be a robocall, or from a potentially fishy phone number, and intercept it on your behalf.
When answering the call, Google Assistant gives the other party a standard greeting: “Hi, the person you’re calling is using a screening service from Google, and will get a copy of this conversation. Go ahead and say your name, and why you’re calling.”
You can then watch your device transcribe the entire conversation in real time on your phone. At any time during the call, you can choose to answer it, have Google Assistant respond for you with automated phrases like “call back later” or “tell me more,” or even block the number and report it as spaWhen Google’s new update drops, your device will save these transcriptions for you to dig up later. (For those curious, all transcriptions happen locally on the phone and not on Google’s servers, so the company doesn’t collect data from these calls or writeups.)
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